www.washingtontimes.com Topics: Agriculture Department'S Food And Nutrition Servicehttp://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/agriculture-departments-food-and-nutrition-service/?utm_medium=RSS2013-05-09T06:05:04-04:00EDITORIAL: A free lunch for the world2013-05-09T06:05:04-04:00THE WASHINGTON TIMEShttp://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/may/9/a-free-lunch-for-the-world/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS<p>The Department of Agriculture is out to sign up the world for food stamps, and you don't even have to live in the United States. The watchdogs at Judicial Watch discovered documents that reveal how the Obama administration's close coordination with the Mexican government entices Mexicans to hop over the ...Food stamp program fails to weed out bad vendors2013-04-22T14:18:12-04:00Phillip Swartshttp://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/apr/22/food-stamp-program-fails-to-weed-out-bad-vendors/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS<p>A federal welfare program that provides food to impoverished mothers and young children has continued paying vendors that have been caught overcharging the government or handing out spoiled foods, an investigation found.</p><p>The U.S. Agriculture Department's&nbsp;<a href="http://www.washingtonguardian.com/sites/default/files/usda_oig_florida_snap.pdf">inspector general reported</a> its spot check of the Women, Infants and Children (WIC) program in ...Violations don’t deter food stamp vendors’ hunger for misuse2013-03-07T22:29:04-05:00Luke Rosiakhttp://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/mar/7/violations-dont-deter-food-stamp-vendors-hunger-fo/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS<p>Kenilworth Market, a bulletproof junk-food emporium just inside Washington, D.C.'s eastern border, sells ski masks in the dead of summer. Its clerks steadily hawk "loosies," or illegal single-sale cigarettes.</p> <p>In 2006, the federal government permanently banned its owner from accepting food stamps after it proved that the store was engaging ...